I sit here in a quiet PA state park. Not many people here, maybe a dozen. I have a fire burning and it's a dark sky area so the milky way is visible. It's phenomenal here except for the guy with the 30" high bug zapper who has went to bed and left the thing zapping away. Did I mention it's half an hour past quiet time? What in the he'll is a bug zapper going to do in the woods on a mountain, next to a lake? Annoy everyone else maybe and probably attract more bugs to his site than without it. Some people amaze me to no end. I guess a stop at the ranger station will be in order tomorrow before the bug zapper takes a 3 AM trip to the dumpster.

Some people will crab about anything! Hopefully the ranger will tell the guy that he can zap twice as many bugs if he uses 2 zappers. 3 times as many with 3 zappers. If enough campers would have big bug zappers going 24/7, maybe a lot of the CG's would become bug free! Then they wouldn't have to have so many zappers going! Sounds like a plan!!!

Maybe someone should show him the research showing that bug zappers primarily attract and kill beneficial bugs that are generally harmless to humans. They catch very few mosquitoes and other biting insects that are attracted to the CO2 we exhale rather than the ultraviolet lights used in bug zappers.

Dutch,I don't know what or which bug zappers you use or have seen but the one we have on our private owned National Forest land patio up north is always full of dead mosquitos and some dead house flies year after year. Guaranteed, dead mosquitos and flies don't ever bite!

I have to chuckle when I think of our first bug zapper when they first came out many moons ago. We hung one in the back yard, and very much enjoyed watching the ring of toads on the ground under it gobbling up the insects as fast as they fell.No, we haven't had one in years. they are a complete waste of money.We use a thermacell now that works like a charmJack L

Not to mention they spray bug parts over a very wide area.. 100 feet or more (Easily two sites over)

The guy 2 sites down, with the super strength bug zapper!

Moderator
Moderator
Jul 18, 2017
" I guess the city slickers like to bring all their noise and other nonsense with them when they "get away from it all." Careful folks, it's not just 'city slickers'....
jarata1
Explorer
Jul 18, 2017
JFNM wrote:
Ralph Cramden wrote:
Some people amaze me to no end.

I'm with you Ralph. Those of that like peace, quiet, and dark are apparently the minority and target of ridicule. Kinda sad since peace, quiet, and dark are the natural state after the sun goes down. I guess the city slickers like to bring all their noise and other nonsense with them when they "get away from it all."

Good shot
jake2250
Explorer
Jul 18, 2017
If its "Bugging" you that much, go toss a glass of water on it! End of problem!
tvman44
Explorer
Jul 18, 2017
Some people need to grow up. :)
NanciL
Explorer II
Jul 18, 2017
I'm with you Ralph, but why not politely mention it to the guy who owns it, before going to the ranger station.

We are like you and enjoy peace and quiet, but one time in the early evening long before quiet time we had a camper two down from us with his outside radio blaring some rock music, and they were in their camper with the door closed.
After a good argument with myself, I finally went to his camper, knocked on the door and asked him he would mind turning it down or off.
He immediately apologized and turned it off.

the next morning he came over and apologized again.

Jack L
JFNM
Explorer
Jul 18, 2017
Sounds like today is your lucky day!! You have now heard four complaints about bug zappers (depending on how you interpret some of the responses in this thread).

Too bad too many people cannot differentiate between "courtesy" and "rules". I've already seen where that gets us and I'm not interested in it.
JFNM
Explorer
Jul 18, 2017
Ralph Cramden wrote:
Some people amaze me to no end.

I'm with you Ralph. Those of that like peace, quiet, and dark are apparently the minority and target of ridicule. Kinda sad since peace, quiet, and dark are the natural state after the sun goes down. I guess the city slickers like to bring all their noise and other nonsense with them when they "get away from it all."
Acampingwewillg
Explorer II
Jul 18, 2017
Sure am glad he wasn't outside watching TV or listening to the radio or had any awning lights etc etc....all hell would have broken loose!! :-) !
ScottG
Nomad
Jul 18, 2017
If possible, I would just unplug it after he went to bed.
In the past I have turned off people radio's they left running when they're gone.
WNYBob
Explorer
Jul 18, 2017
Someone should tell him about a fan type of "zapper" bug killer. Mine has a ring type of UV light bulb and a fan that draws them in and forces them down in to a sock.

Just a little fan noise!